Improvement in fastenings for neck-ties



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QPETER nemers, Lor HIGHLAND FALLs'NEW rome l Letters 'Patent No.107,634,1Zated September 20., l1870.

' i Ynvnnovnvmm' In FASTENINGS PoR NECK-Tres.

. The Scliidule :referred to' in these lLetters Patent and making part;of the vsame.

Falls,in the county of Oran ge and State of New York,

i haveV invented a new and useful Improvement in Necktie Fastenings,ofjwhich the'` following is' a full,- clear, and `exactdescription,reference 4'being had to theaccompanying drawing formingpart of thisspecifcation, andinlwhich-Y y Figure 1 represents a rearview of a neck-tie with myiruproved fastening applied to it; j

Figure 2,a reverse viewof the fastening, on alarger scaleg, y i Figure',a side edge `View of the same; and Figure 4, a longitudinal sectionthereof. Similar letters of reference indicate correspondin Myimprovement `consistsgin' a slide madeup of plates, one of which isarranged towork over the hackof the other, andis drawn ynp byarubberspringto gripe the shank otthe' stud orbutton of theshirt,

said stud or'ibu'tton' projecting througha hole inthe other plate, thatis tacked or sewed at its top'edge to the neck-tie,` the whole forming asimpleand very lse- In the accompanying drawing--` i A represents aneck-gtie, and

B, a stud, applied as` usual to the neck-bandiof the shirt forattachment of the collar and tie'. C 'y G is the fastening by. which theneck-tie is hitched onto or removed, as required, from the stud.

`This fastening is made np of plates` aand 1),.the

front one, a, of which is secured by stitches c, at its ripper edge, tothe neck-tie, and has a hole, el, through itA for passage therethroughof the outer head of.' the stud, in applying the fastening with itsattached tic to the stud. l

The other plate, b, which slidesover the back of' -the plate a, and isconnected'with it by free clips or bent-over portions s, `has a recess,e,'on itspupper Vedge, to gripe, in connection with the upper edge ofthe hole d in the other platejthc shank ofthe stud.

Said last-mentionedplate b isdrawn upward, to cstablish hold, by anelastic band or spring, j, arranged in front ofthe plate ct, and tackedat its'. upper end to said plate at its top, and at its lowerend to theybottom of the plate l), so that by pulling downward on the latterplatethe fastening is open for detachrnentof the tie, and, on releasingsaid plate b, the same made to securely attach itself onto the stud orbutton.4 t

That is here claimed, and desired to be secured by The neck-tiefastening, composed of plates ct and b,

thepne ot" which is arranged to slide over the other, y' and constructedto gripe the shank of the stud or'button, `in combination with theelastic band f, for appli` cation to theneck-tie, substantially asspecified.

. EETER J. SHIRTS.

Witnesses C. CONWAY, H. APPELL.

